regulate
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[change]- IPA (key): /ˈrɛɡjəleɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: re‧gu‧late
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- (transitive) If you regulate something, you control it by making laws and rules.
- The industry has fought the state's attempts to regulate it.
- The Coast Guard has direct authority to regulate U.S. sailors and port workers.
- The government is considering a law that would regulate the prices of drugs.
- The state maintains the power to regulate all schools.
- (transitive) If regulates , causes to function in a particular way, often at a higher or lower level.
- You turn this to regulate the water flow.
- This part of the brain regulates activities such as decision-making and memory.